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Date Sent: 2013-01-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 7, 2013 PM edition |
Now The FBI Has A Corporate Anti-Fraud Program That Scans Emails For 3,000 Suspicious Phrases
Ontario Gun Show Draws Thousands Looking to Stock Up, Send a Message -- Rand Paul Has Arrived In Israel, And It Looks A Lot Like This Is His First Campaign Stop Of 2016 -- Infographic Shows With Stunning Clarity How Domestic Drone Use Is The New Normal -- Four Chinese Surveillance Ships Push Their Luck With Japanese Patience -- Sexting App Snapchat Is A Threat To Facebook, And It Is 2013's Most Likely Billion Dollar Startup -- Japanese Scientists Film Legendary Giant Squid In Pacific Depths -- Obama Must Be Ready To Mint The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin -- Swindled: How the GOP Cheated Ron Paul and Lost The Election -- Libertarians vs. Conservatives on Social Issues (Another pretty girl talking up liberty!) -- Atoms Reach Record Temperature, Colder than Absolute Zero -- Illinois Democrats Back Down On Gun Grab -- Global warming, the tool of the West -- Israel to build 43-mile security fence in Golan Heights -- Buchanan: "There Would Be A Revolution" If Government Confiscated Weapons -- FLASHBACK: Obama: I Will NOT Take Your Guns Away -- Video: The 'War on Terror' - By Design - Can Never End -- Family Farmers to Travel to Washington, D.C. to Take on Monsanto -- New York Congressman Introduces Bill to Abolish Presidential Term Limits -- House GOP seeks to abolish IRS, replace income tax with consumption tax -- Texas Secession Movement Gains Traction - Fox News 1/6/2013 -- Iowa GOP Co-Chair: Ron Paul supporters disenfranchising Republicans (Video) -- "Gun Control’s" Nazi Connection -- Patient prescription drug records
may be used to deny Americans their constitutional rights -- After Sandy Hook: how psychiatrists will become policemen -- Why Civilian Disarmament in the U.S. is Just a Statist Fantasy -- All the President’s Women (Part 3): Diane Feinstein - by Dave Hodges -- Foreign Terrorists Wage War on Syria - by Stephen Lendman -- America's Lackluster December Jobs Report - by Stephen Lendman
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine January 4th, 2013 Edition NOW
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Alex Jones will be on Piers Morgan show live tonight!
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News Link • Internet
Now The FBI Has A Corporate Anti-Fraud Program That Scans Emails For 3,000 Suspicious Phrases
01-07-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Linette Lopez
Given how notorious Wall Streeters are for writing embarrassing e-mails that are later used against them in court (see: Libor scandal), they should really take note of this news.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ontario Gun Show Draws Thousands Looking to Stock Up, Send a Message
01-07-2013
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By Michelle Valles and Samantha Tata
It's the first gun show in California since a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut killed 20 students and six educators.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul Has Arrived In Israel, And It Looks A Lot Like This Is His First Campaign Stop Of 2016
01-07-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Grace Wyler
Sen. Rand Paul kicked off his trip to Israel Sunday, joining several prominent GOP operatives for an eight-day tour that has heightened the Kentucky Republican's international profile and fueled further speculation about a 2016 presidential run.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Infographic Shows With Stunning Clarity How Domestic Drone Use Is The New Normal
01-07-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
It's a Pandora's Box we cannot close: drones are here to stay.
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News Link • China
Four Chinese Surveillance Ships Push Their Luck With Japanese Patience
01-07-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Agence France Pres
Four Chinese government ships entered territorial waters around Japan-controlled islands at the centre of a dispute on Monday, the Japanese coastguard said.
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News Link • Internet
Sexting App Snapchat Is A Threat To Facebook, And It Is 2013's Most Likely Billion Dollar Startu
01-07-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Nicholas Carlson
Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion last spring in a defensive measure.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Japanese Scientists Film Legendary Squid In Pacific Depths
01-07-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Scientists and broadcasters said Monday they have captured footage of an elusive giant squid roaming the depths of the Pacific Ocean, showing it in its natural habitat for the first time ever.
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News Link • Books
Swindled: How the GOP Cheated Ron Paul and Lost The Election
01-07-2013
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http://www.amazon.com, Michael Alford
Swindled: How the GOP Cheated Ron Paul and Lost Themselves the Election by Michael Alford
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Atoms Reach Record Temperature, Colder than Absolute Zero
01-07-2013
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LiveScience
Absolute zero is often thought to be the coldest temperature possible. But now researchers show they can achieve even lower temperatures for a strange realm of "negative temperatures."
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News Link • Agriculture
Dairy Cliff?
01-07-2013
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arclein
That would be (temporarily) great for drought-stricken farmers, who would naturally flood the government with high-priced milk, but would soon create massive shortages that would drive up the price for everyone else. Other companies that rely on milk
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News Link • Housing
Living Large in Small Houses
01-07-2013
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arclein
My husband and I think we’ve found a way to pay off our mortgage early, without taking on an extra job or working nights. We’ve decided to construct a rental unit " a “mother-in-law suite” " within our home. If it pans out as we hope, the rental inco
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Sports Domes and Emergency Planning
01-07-2013
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arclein
Most of the time, the windowless building with the dome-shaped roof will be a typical high school gymnasium filled with cheering fans watching basketball and volleyball games.
But come hurricane season, the structure that resembles a miniature ver
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hyperinflation Fears
01-07-2013
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arclein
Here’s an example of a ludicrously wrong forecast that didn’t touch the fundamentals: In 1929 the great American economist Irving Fisher famously declared that stocks had reached a permanently high plateau; worse yet, he attributed this rosy future t
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Opinion • General Opinion
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Our new year: your new moment
01-07-2013
Frosty Wooldridge
“Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived.” Captain Jean Luc Picard, Starship Enterprise
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News Link • Gun Rights
Illinois Democrats Back Down On Gun Grab
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Bill that would have banned 80% of handguns fails
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Chemtrails
I Did Not Believe in “Chem-Trails” Until I Moved to Aspen, CO
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Mountains don’t naturally get haze. Fog, yes " fog is a natural phenomenon caused by the moisture in the snow and rivers, and fog is very low-lying, close to its source. What I keep seeing in the sky, though, sure does not seem natural.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Alex Jones will be on Piers Morgan show live tonight!
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I just heard Alex say that he would be in New York tomorrow night (1-7-13) live on Piers Morgan show on CNN. I want everyone to watch this show. It should be one of the best shows that Alex has ever done.
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News Link • Climate Change
Global warming, the tool of the West
01-07-2013
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english.pravda.ru
For years, the Elites of the West have cranked up the myth of Man Made Global Warming as a means first and foremost to control the lives and behaviors of their populations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today On LewRockwell.com - Monday January 07th 2013
01-07-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Who Kills More Children? / Gangs or Cops, Or does Will Grigg repeat himself? / The Worst Terrorist State / Legalize Hemp Production! / Self-Infatuation Grows on Campus Actual ability diminishes.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel to build 43-mile security fence in Golan Heights
01-07-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
Israel is to build a 43-mile security fence along the armistice line of the occupied Golan Heights to prevent incursions by Islamist militants currently fighting against President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gulf Oil Spill
Buchanan: "There Would Be A Revolution" If Government Confiscated Weapons
01-07-2013
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realclearpolitics.com
PAT BUCHANAN: There are three million ArmaLite rifles -- those Bushmaster types -- out there right now, and people are buying them like hotcakes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Guns Flying Off The Shelves Amid Debate On Restrictions, Sellers Say
01-07-2013
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chicago.cbslocal.com
Guns and ammunition are disappearing off store shelves in the Chicago area.
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News Link • Obama Administration
FLASHBACK: Obama: I Will NOT Take Your Guns Away
01-07-2013
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cnsnews.com
At a campaign event in Lebanon, Virginia in 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama said that he will not take Americans' guns away.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Video: The 'War on Terror' - By Design - Can Never End
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
As the Pentagon's former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Family Farmers to Travel to Washington, D.C. to Take on Monsanto
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Dozens of family farmers, Plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto, will travel from across America to Washington, D.C. next week to take on Monsanto and demand the right to farm.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
New York Congressman Introduces Bill to Abolish Presidential Term Limits
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Democratic New York Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress Friday to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which places term limits on the U.S. presidency.
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News Link • Secession
Texas Secession Movement Gains Traction - Fox News 1/6/2013
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
'Fiscal cliff' issue boosts support for cause.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House GOP seeks to abolish IRS, replace income tax with consumption tax
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Fifty-four House Republicans on Thursday reintroduced legislation that would terminate the IRS and replace the system of income taxes on people and corporations with a consumption tax.
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News Link • Government
Boehner Coup Attempt Larger Than First Thought
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
A concerted effort to unseat Speaker John A. Boehner was under way the day of his re-election to the position, but participants called it off 30 minutes before the House floor vote, CQ Roll Call has learned.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Iowa GOP Co-Chair: Ron Paul supporters disenfranchising Republicans (Video)
01-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Bill Schickel, the co-chair of the Republican Party of Iowa, on Saturday blasted the dominance of Ron Paul supporters within the state party.
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News Link • Gun Rights
"Gun Control’s" Nazi Connection
01-07-2013
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jpfo.org
Startling evidence suggests that the Gun Control Act of 1968
was lifted, almost in its entirety, from Nazi legislation.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Patient prescription drug records may be used to deny Americans their constitutional rights
01-07-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In an effort to deny gun ownership “privileges” to as many Americans as possible, Sen. Feinstein and other proponents of total citizen disarmament could simply expand the definition of those deemed “mentally unfit” for gun purchases to include anyone
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Second Amendment means ...
01-07-2013
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usatoday30.usatoday.com
Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms?
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News Link • Obama Administration
After Sandy Hook: how psychiatrists will become policemen
01-07-2013
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jonrappoport.wordpress.com
Obama, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, stated that mental-health services must be made more available, presumably to stave off future killers.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Why Civilian Disarmament in the U.S. is Just a Statist Fantasy
01-07-2013
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Survivalblog.com
I often have SurvivalBlog readers forward me alarmist e-mails, warning of "total disarmament" of the civilian populace.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
The Zero State Solution " The Libertarian Answer to the “Arab/Israeli” Conflict
01/05/2013
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Rafi Farber of Settlers of Samaria
In this post I will try to give the libertarian answer to a problem that has been nagging at all of us incessantly. The answer will probably shock you, so be prepared. There’s a problem. There’s this thing called the Jewish democratic State. It needs
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Gun Printing: James Corbett Reports (Video)
01-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Gary Franchi interviews James Corbett connecting from Japan on Next News Network on various topics including the future of 3D printing, intellectual property, free speech, upcoming government regulations, local drone surveillance and much more.
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Opinion • Gun Rights
My Line In The Sand Is Drawn Here!
01-06-2013
Chuck Baldwin
If Barack Obama and his gaggle of gun grabbers have their way, the American citizenry will have all of their firearms taken away. If their current attempt to outlaw semi-automatic rifles is successful, does anyone think it will stop there? Don’t be n
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Florida 'artist' held in traffic fracas
01-05-2013
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upi.com
A Florida judge told a defendant this week she should keep what she calls performance art away from busy streets "and everything will start looking up for you."
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News Link • World News
Icelandic girl fights for right to her own name
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Call her the girl with no name.
A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means light breeze in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the government.
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News Link • Gun Rights
N.Y. Newspaper Gun owner Map, Inmates intimidating Guards (know where they live now)
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Journal News in N.Y. put an interactive map online of gun owners in various counties. Since then one county (Putnam) has refused to give them the gun owners information and the newspaper has hired armed guards due to the backlash they have recei
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News Link • Economy - International
Child benefit reforms under fire as parents fail to opt out
01-05-2013
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The Guardian
Most families who will lose all of their benefit under changes coming in on Monday have not taken step to stop payments.
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News Link • China
Japan Sends Fighter Jets After A Second Ever Chinese Invasion Of Its Airspace
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
China's first ever invasion of Japan's airspace happened just weeks ago, but the move appears to becoming a routine addition to the burgeoning standoff.
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News Link • Food
Is There a Place For Genetically Modified Animals In Your Future?
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Recently scientists in China developed a GM (Genetically Modified) cow that yields human breast milk. This has put the spotlight an ongoing debate over the appropriate place of GM organisms in society. Several animal species have already been genetic
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
2012: The Year of Banker Infestation . . . 2013: The Year They Become Obsolete?
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert argue over whether things are looking better or worse for the American worker. While Stacy argues that the return of some manufacturing is a sign that wealth creating jobs may return to the US, Max counte
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News Link • Gold and Silver
$10 Million Of Silver Bars Lying In The Street, Literally Littering The Road
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Once in a blue moon, you may find a random $20 bill lying around and feel lucky. Imagine how you’d feel if you came across $10 million in silver.
That is exactly what motorists in upstate New York encountered. An armored truck was heading from Roc
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Federal Court OKs Big Pharma’s Reps to Push Unapproved Drugs
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It’s no secret that millions of Americans are prescribed an array of pharmaceutical drugs to “treat” a variety of conditions. It’s also been brought to surface in recent years just how corrupt the industry really is, and how medical professionals and
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News Link • Property Rights
Heritage Pig Farm Embargoed, USDA and DNR Close In
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
“Our farm is basically embargoed. We can raise all the pigs we want, but can not move them out to our market. That cuts off cash flow, effectively starving the farm financially and the pigs practically.”
Bakers Green Acres made the news last sprin
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News Link • Gun Rights
Australian Gun Law Update
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
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News Link • Healthcare
Loophole in Obamacare can leave you without insurance
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Obama administration issued long expected guidelines about the implementation of the health care law on Monday containing a huge loophole that could leave millions of Americans still uninsured.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video Emerges Showing Seattle Cop Punching Citizen
01-04-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Seattle police went completely overboard in arresting him " not that they even had the grounds to do so in the first place " choking him, punching him and smothering his face with their hands. All while telling him to “relax” and to “stop resisting.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Gangs or Cops -- Or Do I Repeat Myself?
01-04-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Denver Police Officer Eric Sellers once choked an innocent pedestrian into unconsciousness while two other officers refused to intervene. This was an act of summary “street justice” imposed as a penalty for “contempt of cop”:
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds ‘flower’ on surface of Mars
01-04-2013
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The Sideshow
Boyle reached out to NASA spokesman Guy Webster. Interestingly, Webster shot down the plastic theory, saying in response, "That appears to be part of the rock, not debris from the spacecraft."
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News Link • Federal Reserve
$1.1 Million in Fake Bills, Using a Printer
01-04-2013
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New York Times
Making fake money remains a thriving enterprise in the United States, as it has been since before the Civil War. In more than two-thirds of all cases, criminals manipulate scanners, printers and toner ink to create money where once there was none.
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News Link • Food
F.D.A. Offers Sweeping Rules to Fight Food Contamination and Jack Prices
01-04-2013
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New York Times
The proposed rules represent a sea change in the way the agency polices food, a process that currently involves taking action after contamination has been identified. A long-awaited step toward codifying the food safety law Congress passed 2 years ag
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Off-duty cops caught egging house of superior officer
01-04-2013
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The Sideshow
Cops these days. It's like they have no respect for authority. Last month, several off-duty police officers were caught egging the home of a superior officer in a small Massachusetts town. Initially, police from Framingham suspected dastardly teenage
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News Link • Food
Productive Property vs. the Lawn Police
01-04-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
It's amazing to see the number of individuals who are being persecuted for using their own property for productive purposes. This house and garden in Florida violated an "appearance code." Appearance is always subjective, until the government
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Switzerland’s oldest bank pleads guilty to aiding U.S. tax evasion
01/03/2013
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THE EXECUTIVE GATEWAY
Switzerland’s oldest bank pleads guilty to aiding U.S. tax evasion
Switzerland’s oldest bank pleaded guilty on Thursday to helping wealthy Americans hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service.
The case marks the first time a
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